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BUTTON FASTENER. I No. 316,432. Patented Apr. 21, 1885.

UNrrn STATES PATENT 'FricEE.

THOMAS E. KEAVY, OF KENT, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO W. I. CARIS, OF SAME PLACE.

BUTTON-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 316,432, dated April 21, 1885.

Application filed February 11, 1885.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 'I, THOMAS E. KEAVY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kent, in the county of Portage and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Button-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a pin or wire nail, formed with a head or enlargement at one end, loosely inclosed in a hollow head to allow the pin to turn and have lateral motion in the hollow head. It is especially intended and adapted for a shoe-button fastener.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents the pin and a section of the hollow head. Fig. 2 represents the pin formed or provided with its hollow head and with its point or shank looped and connected with the eye of a button; and Fig. 3 is a view of the bottom, and Fig. 4. of the top, of the hollow head of the fastener.

The wire pin a is formed with point a and a head, (1?, whose top and bot-tom are convex to allow the pin free lateral motion or inclination in the hollow head a. The bottom of the outer head, a, is formed with a perforation, 0, through which the shank of pin a projects. The cavity of the outer hollow head, 0, and perforation c are sufficiently large toallow free movement for pin a to turn or assume an inclined position to the head, in order that When the fastener is connected with button I) and the-shoe or leather 8, as shown in Fig. 2,

and applied to use, the pressure of outer head, 0, against the leather 8 will be substantially equal at all parts of contact with the leather.

In attaching the fastener to a shoe the point a is inserted through the leather 8 and then bent into a loop encircling the eye of button at.

The head a may be formed, as shown, in two (No model.)

parts, the top part being convex and firmly attached to the bottom part by crimping its edge or periphery over that of the bottom part.

The main advantage of my button-fastener with a double head is that in wearing the shoe to which it is applied the head a" of pin a cannot tear the stocking nor stain it with rust, nor hurt the foot, and the, comparatively large hollow head 0, which will be in contact with the stocking, does not tip from any lateral strain on button it, so as to injure or tear leather. For this last-mentioned purpose of protecting the leather the hollow head performs the function of the ordinary well-known washer in common use for protecting wood, leather, 810,, from contact with the head of a pin or bolt; but it would be very inconvenient to handle separately such very small pins and washers as would be required in fastening buttons. This inconvenience and difficulty are obviated by the use of the pin permanently connected with the hollow head, as herein described.

I claim as my invention 1. As an article of manufacture, a buttonfastener consisting of a pin formed with a head or enlargement at one end and provided with a hollow head loosely inclosing the en larged end of the pin, substantially as de scribed.

2. In a button-fastener, the headed pin a, in combination with the hollow head 0, having the perforation o, and formed with a convex top whose periphery is crimped to the bottom of the hollow head, substantially as described.

THOS. E. KEAVY.

Attestz HENRY MERRITT, CHARLES H. Hnss. 

